From Shadows to Safety: Occlusion Tracking and Risk Mitigation for Urban Autonomous Driving
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| author | Moller, Korbinian Schwarzmeier, Luis Betz, Johannes |
| author_facet | Moller, Korbinian Schwarzmeier, Luis Betz, Johannes |
| contents | Autonomous vehicles (AVs) must navigate dynamic urban environments where occlusions and perception limitations introduce significant uncertainties. This research builds upon and extends existing approaches in risk-aware motion planning and occlusion tracking to address these challenges. While prior studies have developed individual methods for occlusion tracking and risk assessment, a comprehensive method integrating these techniques has not been fully explored. We, therefore, enhance a phantom agent-centric model by incorporating sequential reasoning to track occluded areas and predict potential hazards. Our model enables realistic scenario representation and context-aware risk evaluation by modeling diverse phantom agents, each with distinct behavior profiles. Simulations demonstrate that the proposed approach improves situational awareness and balances proactive safety with efficient traffic flow. While these results underline the potential of our method, validation in real-world scenarios is necessary to confirm its feasibility and generalizability. By utilizing and advancing established methodologies, this work contributes to safer and more reliable AV planning in complex urban environments. To support further research, our method is available as open-source software at: https://github.com/TUM-AVS/OcclusionAwareMotionPlanning |
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| spellingShingle | From Shadows to Safety: Occlusion Tracking and Risk Mitigation for Urban Autonomous Driving Moller, Korbinian Schwarzmeier, Luis Betz, Johannes Robotics Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Autonomous vehicles (AVs) must navigate dynamic urban environments where occlusions and perception limitations introduce significant uncertainties. This research builds upon and extends existing approaches in risk-aware motion planning and occlusion tracking to address these challenges. While prior studies have developed individual methods for occlusion tracking and risk assessment, a comprehensive method integrating these techniques has not been fully explored. We, therefore, enhance a phantom agent-centric model by incorporating sequential reasoning to track occluded areas and predict potential hazards. Our model enables realistic scenario representation and context-aware risk evaluation by modeling diverse phantom agents, each with distinct behavior profiles. Simulations demonstrate that the proposed approach improves situational awareness and balances proactive safety with efficient traffic flow. While these results underline the potential of our method, validation in real-world scenarios is necessary to confirm its feasibility and generalizability. By utilizing and advancing established methodologies, this work contributes to safer and more reliable AV planning in complex urban environments. To support further research, our method is available as open-source software at: https://github.com/TUM-AVS/OcclusionAwareMotionPlanning |
| title | From Shadows to Safety: Occlusion Tracking and Risk Mitigation for Urban Autonomous Driving |
| topic | Robotics Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.01408 |